Policy & Power

OP-ED | Power Corridor

Crypto Bros Can’t Kill Crypto

After a scandal-ridden year, is crypto poised for a ‘supercycle’?

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Hedge Funds

Hedge Funds are Pushing Back on SEC’s Short-Selling Rules

Industry groups representing a coalition of hedge funds havefiled a lawsuit seeking to challenge short selling rules implemented by the SEC.

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Artificial Intelligence

The SEC Probes AI Use at Investment Advisory Firms

As the world of high finance ushers in an era of AI, the SEC has begun investigating how investment advisory firms use the technology.

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Geopolitics

UN Agency Wants More Meat Production, Less Climate Impact

The UN wants poor nations to ramp up meat production for to address malnutrition, and developed nations to cut back.

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Regulation

Washington Wants More Rules, Bankers Have Concerns

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Top bosses from eight major financial institutions appeared before a Senate committee to give their opinion on looming banking reforms.

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OP-ED | Power Corridor

Why Wall Street Is Betting On Nikki Haley

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She can beat Biden, but first she has to neutralize Trump.

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Geopolitics

Ukrainian Grain Shipments Are Insurable Again

The Ukrainian government struck a deal with insurers on Wednesday to provide affordable insurance to ships carrying grain out of the country.

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Power Corridor

What’s Afoot At the FDIC?

It’s not every day that you wake up to headlines about one of the nation’s most staid-and-storied institutions – really, the cornerstone upon which the entire U.S. banking system rests in order to remain stable – engaging in the sexual…

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OP-ED | Power Corridor

Biden-Xi: An Elaborately Choreographed Thaw

With so much amiss between the U.S. and China (the pandemic, the “balloon incident,” China’s opposing views on the Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Gaza wars, and America’s containment of tech exports to China), expectations may be so lowly rated…

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Power Corridor

House’s Two-Step Shuffle

Alabama Republican Rep. Mike Johnson, in the first big test of his leadership as House Speaker, led the charge to push through an extremely unique two-step plan this week to prevent a government shutdown.

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Policy & Power

The Cost of Climate Change Is Adding Up

The annual US National Climate Assessment included an economic impact assessment for the first time, and it’s not pretty.

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Regulation

UK Follows EU’s Lead With Its Own Carbon-Tax Plan

The UK plans to press ahead with a carbon border adjustment mechanism, or levies on goods from countries with weaker climate regulations.

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Big Tech

Tech Giants Win Regulatory Case in EU, But Tax Clouds Loom

Meta, Google, and TikTok successfully argued that individual European countries can’t cook up their own laws for large digital platforms.

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